"You can't stand on your own, Quinn. You're not the type. You need me."
As Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) is the first R-rated film in the DC Extended Universe, let's just say that it goes out of its way to portray the harsh realities of crime gangs through an equally troubled woman.- When some creep tries extorting sexual favours out of Harley in exchange for giving her a free hyena, Harley feeds him to the beast. What's more, Harley doesn't show regret or even savour the deed. She just goes back to angsting over her breakup, reminding everyone that this chick will feel nothing once she decides to kill you.
- When Harley breaks the legs of Sionis' driver (with a Sickening "Crunch!"), the impact clearly leaves them in an angle that means the guy might never walk again. Quite excruciating to watch.
- Victor Zsasz is a nasty piece of work; the single most disturbing, cruel and sadistic henchman in the DCEU so far. And he clearly enjoys being this way.
- When Harley first introduces Sionis and Zsasz, they have a family tied upside down before Zsasz cuts the face off the father, and then proceeding to kill his wife and daughter.
- To make things worse, Sionis was actually prepared to let the daughter go. But when she thanked him and shed tears of joy, he saw that she had a big snot bubble in her nose and was so disgusted that he decided to kill her just for that.
- After hearing bad news from a henchman, an enraged Sionis forces an innocent woman in his club to stand on a table and dance for him. Once she's on the table, Sionis then orders her friend to cut up her dress and tear it off her. The reason he's doing all this? Sionis heard her laughing very loudly and immediately assumed it was directed towards him.
- Even worse is that Zsasz eggs Roman on, saying the club attendee was indeed laughing at him. And the purring way he says it implies he knew she wasn't but wanted to see Sionis confront her anyway!
- Roman and his False Face gang corner the heroes in the amusement park. Seeing him wearing his skeletal black mask and addressing a crowd of Malevolent Masked Men gives off a very cultish vibe.
- The climactic confrontation and Founder's Pier. A fog that was not present anywhere else in the city envelops the area and conceals the holes in the rotting floorboards. Roman is able to completely disappear in it with Cassandra at knifepoint and is only revealed because he allowed himself to be. The whole scene is extraordinarily spooky.
- Roman Sionis makes his waitresses wear kigurumi masks. This detail is easy to miss considering the way they're shot, so it can be a real shock the first time you notice the creepy blank doll face in the background.
